Guardiola said: "I have a lot of respect for my colleague Arsene, he always likes the good, good players, always likes the good style.

"They have good shape, good movement. If we let them have the ball, let them have possession then we will suffer.

"The most important thing, for me as a trainer, is to make sure the players dominate the ball.

"It's my third time playing Arsenal here in London and I've not beaten them. I've learned that you can dominate for 75 minutes - 90 minutes is impossible - and with their quality of player, Arsenal are always difficult.

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"I know Cazorla, Wilshere, Ox-Chamberlain, they have experience. Giroud is terrible for us in the box. They are a very dangerous team."

Guardiola was also full of praise for Wenger, and claimed the fact the Frenchman faces going nine years without a trophy at one of England's elite clubs should not be seen as a failure.

The former Barcelona boss said: "Life is not only trophies. Arsenal compete with huge teams, important teams. They remain a good team and a good club."

Robben added: "We try to play our football, good football and the hunger is still there and there hasn't been a team that has won the Champions League twice in a row so that is a good target for us to try to reach the final.

"It's for other people to judge if we are better now but we are trying to improve, enjoy our football and we have a lot of determination plus big players coming into this club.